Segue Software Corporate Overview

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Segue SoftwareCorporate Overview
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Topics

• Who is Segue
• The Macro Market
• Vision and Mission
• Todays QA Trends
• Quality Optimization
• Our Focus
• SilkCentral

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Segue Software Overview

• A leader in application software quality since
  1988
• A well-respected technology innovator
• An international company
• Over 2,000 customers
• Fortune 1000 enterprise customer base
• Over 200 employees worldwide
• FY2003 revenues of 30 million

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Segues Vision Of The Macro Market

• The Six Sigma quality standard will be pushed to
  the Software Application Lifecycle (SAL) because
• 0.80 of every 1.00 in software development is
  spent on fixing bugs
• 60B - Annual cost of software bugs (US)

Source NIST Report, 2002
Six Sigma is a registered trademark of Motorola,
Inc.
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Our Vision
  Segue will be the Six Sigma quality
standard solutions for the software application
lifecycle (SAL)
Six Sigma is a registered trademark of Motorola,
Inc.
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Our Mission
Enable businesses to have defect-free
software We will accomplish this by being the
global leader in providing quality optimization
solutions that define, measure, manage and
maintain application quality across the software
application lifecycle (SAL).
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Todays Software Quality Trends

• Reducing application release cycle times without
  compromising quality
• Deliver mission-critical applications on-time and
  without production outages
• Test and monitor complex applications across
  multiple environments and platforms
• Continuous quality collaboration throughout the
  application lifecycle

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What Is Quality Optimization
DEFINE Establish quality objectives that support
key business requirements, on time and on budget.
MEASURE Ongoing measurement of quality
throughout the application lifecycle.
MANAGE Empowering people to make the best
quality-related decisions impacting time, project
scope, resources and budget.
MAINTAIN Closed loop feedback to ensure software
quality levels are always maintained.
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Software Application Lifecycle
Quality Optimization Must Span the Software
Application Lifecycle
Requirements
SOFTWARE APPLICATION LIFECYCLE

• Test Management
• Issue Management
• Performance Management

Define
Functional Testing
Application Monitoring
Measure
Manage
Maintain
Load Testing
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Our Market Focus
Application Monitoring
Automated Software Quality
SEGUE FOCUS
Quality Optimization
Network Systems Management
Diagnostics
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Market Landscape
Automated Software Quality
Application Monitoring


SEGUE FOCUS
Quality Optimization
IBM Rational
Keynote
Compuware
Compuware
Radview
Mercury
Mercury
Empirix
Empirix


Mercury
Mercury
HP
Altaworks
Compuware
Compuware
Borland
Computer Associates
BMC
Wily
Peakstone
IBM Tivoli
Resonate
QUEST
Diagnostics
Network Systems Management
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Introducing SilkCentral
A Platform for Quality Optimization
Automated Software Quality
Application Monitoring
Alliances
SilkCentral Quality Optimization Platform
Alliances
Diagnostics
Network and Systems Management

• It is vital for AD and Operations to be working
  together from the beginning to build quality and
  performance into the applications early in the
  life cycle. Gartner Group

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Summary

• Segue is focused on application quality
• Trends in applications require a new approach to
  software quality
• Quality must be addressed across the software
  application lifecycle (SAL)
• Quality Optimization addresses quality
  definition, measurement, management and
  maintenance
• Quality Optimization across the SAL is what we do
• SilkCentral is our Quality Optimization Solution

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Optimizing Quality